Leif Ericsson [sic] statue, Milwaukee, Wis., between 1880 and 1899. Bronze sculpture by Anne Whitney, unveiled in 1887. Norse explorer thought to have been the first European to have set foot on continental North America, approximately half a millennium before Christopher Columbus.

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